Research Catalog

Title

Women and social change : feminist activism in Canada / edited by Jeri Dawn Wine and Janice L. Ristock.

Publication

Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Wine, Jeri Dawn
• Ristock, Janice L. (Janice Lynn)

Description

xi, 395 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Feminism > Canada
• Women > Political activity > Canada
• Women > Canada > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-390)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Feminist practice: a new approach to evaluating feminist strategy / Linda Briskin -- Feminist collectives: the struggles and contradictions in our quest for a "uniquely feminist structure" / Janice L. Ristock -- Reflections on integrative feminism and rural women: the case of antigonish town and county / Angela Miles -- Bending the iron law of oligarchy: debates on the feminization of organization and political process in the English Canadian women's movement, 1970-1988 / Jill Vickers -- Reorganizing the national action committee on the status of women, 1986-1988 / Lorraine Greaves -- Saskatchewan women respond to cutbacks: the founding of a provincial women's coalition / Ronnie Leah, Cydney Ruecker -- Networking in Northern Manitoba / M. Jean Graveline, Katherine Fitzpatrick, Barbara Mark -- Organizing in a small community: Prince Edward Island / J. Estelle Reddin -- Getting our act together: the Ontario farm women's movement / Ella Haley -- Finding our voices: reflections on immigrant women's organizing / Roxana Ng -- "You can't change the Indian Act?" / Shirley Bear with the Tobique Women's Group -- The disAbled women's network: the fragile success / Joanne Doucette -- Lesbians against the right in Toronto / Sharon D. Stone.
• Bridging the gap between activism and academe: the Canadian research institute for the advancement of women / Linda Christiansen-Ruffman -- Feminist organizing in the academic disciplines: the Canadian sociology and anthropology association / Janice Drakich, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale -- Feminist academics and community: activists working together / Anne Bishop, Ann Manicom, Mary Morissey -- Putting our two heads together: a research group uses subjective perceptions to understand women's occupational health / Karen Messing -- Working together for a feminist future: what can academics and activists accomplish in a distance education course? / Joanne Prindiville -- Feminist activism and the feminist studies classroom / Jeri Dawn Wine.

ISBN

• 1550283588
• 1550283561 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91222415^

OCLC

• 25834026
• SCSB-12291065

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Harvard Library